3 v. 27 cm

Paged continuously

Vols. 2-3 have subtitle: A plain story simply told

Originally published in parts, in conjunction with the Outline of art, edited by Sir William Orpen

Bibliography at end of each chapter

First Volume. The fiirst books in the world -- Homer -- The story of the Bible -- The English bible -- The sacred books of the east -- Greek myths and the poets -- Greece and Rome -- The Middle Ages -- The Renaissance -- Second Volume. William Shakespeare 1564-1616 -- Shakespeare to Milton -- John Milton -- Marvell and Walton -- John Bunyan -- Pepys, Dryden, and the Restoration dramatists -- French literature in the age of Louis XIV -- Pope, Addison, Steele, Swift -- The rise of the novel -- The eighteenth-century poets -- Dr. Johnson and his circle -- Edward Gibbon and other eighteenth-century prose-writers -- Robert Burns -- The literature that made the revolution -- Goethe, Schiller, and Lessing -- Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, and Blake -- Byron, Shelley, Keats -- Third Volume. Scott, Dumas, and Hugo -- Early nineteenth-century essayists -- Victorian poets -- Dickens and Thackeray -- The Victorian novelists -- The New England writers -- The nineteenth-century French writers -- The great victorians -- Modern writers, American and European -- Some later victorians -- Dramatic literature -- English poetry since Swinburne -- Later day writers -- Index

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